Sup

Quick meaning: Sup is a verb meaning To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.

Meaning

To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.

More Meanings

1. A sip; a small amount, of food or drink, water or rain.
2. To eat supper.
3. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.
4. (informal) Superintendent.
5. (mathematics) Supremum, upper limit.
6. (bodybuilding, colloquial) Supplement.
7. (slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)

Example Sentences

There I'll sup / Balm and nectar in my cup.

And as she supped her tea she smiled discreetly at him over the brim.

Not a sup will I swallow, nor a bit will I bite, till Burd Ellen is set free.

We’re sisters in a sort and I’ll take Louie home with me and give her sup and shelter.

Word Forms

• sups
• supping
• supped
• s'up
• supe
• supp

Synonyms for sup

Depending on context, synonyms include wassup, wudup, swallow, dine.

Antonyms for sup

Common opposites include sdown.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dine, swallow, sip, swig, supper, dinner.

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